S. N. Balagangadhara, known as Balu, is Professor at the department of the Comparative Science of Cultures in Ghent University, Belgium. His only interest and obsession is to study and understand the western and the Indian cultures against the background of his own. He is married to Anne and has two children: Anil and Ashok. Though ecologically oriented, he firmly believes that pets and plants do not belong inside but outside his home. While his wife has acquiesced to the one, regarding the other, to his utter dismay, she displays a lamentable and alarming psychological weakness: she populates their living room with plants of all indescribable sorts. This has been the cause and the backdrop of many-a-Mahabharata in their household. True to the original, this story too does not look like having an end either...<<